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Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.

Richard Feynman

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Philosophy Science
Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Enjoyment Thankful
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Discipline Education Possible Yourself
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Practice Result Science Sex
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Belief Ignorance Science
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Language Logic Mathematics Tool
I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Gratitude Knowledge Myself Purpose Teaching Thinking
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Deep Doubt Faith Science
Quantum mechanics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Acceptance Herself Hope Mad Myself Nature View
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Reason Science Sex
I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand Weakness
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Decision Love Mindset Myself Ruin Thinking Understand
I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Learning Myself Ordinary People Person
I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Man Myself Smart

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